Jim Maxfield
CEO & Principal Sales Architect at Gather
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Maxfield is a serial founder and CEO with 11 years in tech-driven automotive and insurance ventures, most recently leading Gather as CEO & Principal Sales Architect after cashing out from Salty’s acquisition by CDK. He combines hands-on product and front-end development experience—contributing to notable open-source work on formio.js—with a consistent track record of creating embedded insurance and dealer-focused SaaS that accelerates retail velocity. Known as a change agent, he repeatedly builds companies that discard legacy dealer dogma in favor of processes that benefit both dealerships and car buyers. A former Navy nuclear officer and Naval Academy aerospace graduate, he brings disciplined systems thinking to revenue, product, and go-to-market execution.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)BS: Aerospace Engineering, BS: Aerospace Engineering at United States Naval Academy
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
front-end-development10
forms10
formcontrol10
js9
vanilla-javascript9
wysiwyg9
react8
oauth8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
formio/formio.js
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
JavaScript powered Forms with JSON Form Builder
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the frontend of the formio.js project, enhancing the functionality and usability of form components. Their work included fixing issues related to custom class options, cookie handling, and file upload read-only buttons. They also implemented OAuth integration for button components and refined WYSIWYG functionality, incorporating spellcheck support and resolving validation issues within the text area components.
reactform-schemaform-builderjavascriptvanillajs
Vercjames/package-trpc-swagger
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Swagger/Openapi wrapper for tRPC
Contributions:5 releases, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
apiapi-restnextjs14nodenodejs
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